Don't throw your old washer away

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Did you also know that you can, in most cases, use the glass part of the door as a bowl, a friend of mine has used some for years as serving bowls, they are huge and she has another one as a gold fish bowl with two little fish in.

freecycle is brill, we just put our old vax on freecycle and, someone wants a caster of the bottom, and someone wants the switch off the top so thats two directions its going in, may just recycle the cable before it goes too, stick it in my puggit box, better than landfill any day. We do very well out of frecycle and we put a good bit of stuff on too, sort of keeps things ballanced.

Am looking out for an old washer now, outstanding idea, go just nicely with the wood we get off the beach, wood on the barbie, wood on the fire, maybe a patio warmer in the cooler evenings, me brain is on overdrive:D

Hmmmm, by my reckoning a tumble dryer would also have a drum... and my mate has an old tumble dryer which has died and she wants rid of... Do you think she'd be upset if I took it off her hands and made myself a lovely little wood burner for my newly done up garden? Or should I tell her and she can put it in her garden?

Did you also know that you can, in most cases, use the glass part of the door as a bowl, a friend of mine has used some for years as serving bowls, they are huge and she has another one as a gold fish bowl with two little fish in.

Did you also know that you can, in most cases, use the glass part of the door as a bowl, a friend of mine has used some for years as serving bowls, they are huge and she has another one as a gold fish bowl with two little fish in.

Yep I use the old door as a bird bath in the garden never thought of the woodburner idea though , might try it

it's amazing what you can re-use out of your house. i made a raised bed for salad veg for henry to learn how to grow food out of an old bath that was going to be dumped (it was at 3year old height and easy for him and meant no trampling seedlings by mistake) i also made a soft fruit cage out frame out of the bed ends and slats of a pine bed that a neighbour was throwing away and a huge strawberry pot out of a belfast sink. now i'm in a flat i really miss my garden...:( but you can't have everything....

bee kind....build a bee a house...bee a honey....plant a bee lovely blooms